Book
Love and rage : the path of liberation through anger
Publication Information
Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2020]
Physical Description
xviii, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation? White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. Owens shows how this unmetabolized anger--and the grief, hurt, and transhistorical trauma beneath it--needs to be explored, respected, and fully embodied to heal from heartbreak and walk the path of liberation. This is not a book about bypassing anger to focus on happiness, or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else. Instead, it is one that offers a potent vision of anger that acknowledges and honors its power as a vehicle for radical social change and enduring spiritual transformation.
Contents
- Introduction
- what is this?
- A sermon on love and anger
- Woundedness and rage
- A conversation on love and rage
- The practices
- Embodiment
- Happiness
- Acceptance
- #MeToo and the Guru
- Kindness
- Let's talk about sex
- Apocalypse right now
- Heartbrokenness
- Trauma
- Skillful mourning
- Self-care.